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Tiny Endangered Snails Reintroduced to Remote IslandThe Guardian reports that for more than a century, there seemed to be no sign of the Desertas Island land snails on their ...
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Once Feared Extinct, 1,329 Pea-Sized Snails Have Been Released on an Atlantic Island After Captive Breeding EffortGoats, rodents and habitat loss threatened the snails on Deserta Grande Island, so the mollusks were reintroduced on a ...
More than 1,300 pea-sized, critically endangered snails that were bred in a zoo have been set free to wander (very slowly) on a remote Atlantic island. The release brings two species of Desertas ...
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Chester Zoo has reintroduced 1,329 critically endangered Desertas Island land snails to Bugio Island in the Atlantic as part ...
The release brings two species of Desertas Island land snails back to the wild. Prior to this they were believed to be extinct - neither species had been spotted for a century. When a team of ...
More than 1,300 tiny, critically endangered snails that were bred in a UK zoo were released on a remote Atlantic island in a bid by conservationists to save the species.
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